Pataskala extended its freeze on businesses growing, processing or selling adult-use marijuana within the Licking County city. The City Council on May 5 extended the city's moratorium on issuing and processing permits related to the cultivation, processing and dispensing of marijuana for adult-use until Dec. 31, according to a YouTube video of the meeting.
The moratorium, originally approved Sept. 3, was set to expire July 1. Council members enacted it to allow officials time to review state regulations that were supposed to be finalized last fall. But legislators still haven't finalized the rules, so the council's development committee wanted the moratorium extended, according to city documents.
The moratorium has no effect on home growing and personal use, The Advocate previously reported.
Medical marijuana has been legal in Ohio since 2016, and Ohio voters approved the legalization of recreational marijuana for those 21 and older in November 2023. Recreational sales started in August throughout the state, The Advocate previously reported.
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